Word: academia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Radcliffe in 1950 began offering a series of liberal arts courses called the Radcliffe Seminars to women in the Cambridge area. Some of the women were older, some had left college to raise families, but all of them lacked access to an educational experience at the level of Harvard academia. When, in 1963, the seminars became part of the Radcliffe Institute, it was tacitly decided that first preference to seats would be given to scholars other than Harvard and Radcliffe undergraduates...
...whom the faculties could embrace as a compatriot (many professors had sent letters critical of Pusey's inadequate credentials as a scholar)? Or did Harvard need a man who, though not a scholar, could be an administrator bringing external order and perspective to the ingrown tendencies of Harvard academia? Should Harvard choose a man on his ability to handle specific problems-curriculum reform, financial crises, dwindling faith in scholarship, even merger debates? Or should it choose a man who had little experience with the pressing problems but seemed more oriented toward handling long range questions or towards absorbing unanticipated situations...
...invade Cambodia-one of the most publicly effective objections to national policy has been the opposition of Kissinger's most eminent colleagues. But within government and Washington society, one of Kissinger's most potent weapons is a widespread impression that Harvard really doesn't want him back, that academia is discriminating against him because of his policy, that Harvard's faculty is as totalitarian as the enemy...
Staying in Tune. The fact that jazz is being marked and measured by the schools will lend it a certain stability that it never had before. The big danger, of course, is that, like so many other folkloric subjects in academia, jazz could wind up fully preserved but essentially dead on the page...